The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-21
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THE 5C1TY'ssNEW LIFE.
The Thousands Of Dollars Worth
Of improvements
In the Way Of New Business and
Dwelling Houses
That we're Made in the Season Just
Closing.
A BOOM IN BUILDING.
A List of Enterprising Wheeling
Residents y
Who are Helping to Make the Old
II Town New. is5.s
\ BOOM IN BUILDING.
A List of Enterprising Wheeling
Residents
Who are Helping to Make the Old
II Town New. i-3.s

Iho building season OF 1887 In Wheel
Ing was unprecedented in activity. All
the contractors have had all the work
thoy could do, aome Of them 80 much that
they found considerable difficulty in keep.
Ing up with It all. A number Of fine
structures, reaidencea and buainesa blocks,
are now IN the last stages Of the outside
work, md when finished they will make
the results Of building operations this aca.
son Incompatible with those OF aDy for
mer seaBon. The most apparent i'm.
provemene wss on the Island aud ia the
suburbs Immediately cast Of tho city,
whore the building operations amounted
to boom. But all over the city aud In
tho region where tho city's population
finds breathing space out of buHiness
hours there has been q general better
ment. New houses have gone up by the
score; old buildings have been enlarged
and made over alter modern designs; nov
fronts and new rooves, new cellara and
new poiches, have sprung into being on
every Rquars. II haa been a matter OF
frequent remark that there never WAS a
aeason when such general and decided
II d
carpenters, plastsrera, plumbers, stone
masons, slate roofera. painters, have ell
been busy, and often tho demand for lnbor
has for time exceeded the. supply. T5'.5s.
THE WORE DONE.
Owing to tho large number OF con!rac-
tors who haye been engaged in building,
some OF them being out Of the city, and to
the further fact that number of persona
have built houses for themselves, buying
tho material and supsrintending the work
themselves, it is difficult to form on eati-
mate ot the gross amount Of work done
this season. A careful estimate by o,m.
potent authority of tho money npsat ipr
new houees and improvements OF all char
acters on old ones, places the total at half
million dollars. There vera not less
thar two hundred new houacs built. OF
theee number have hesn extensive man
ufacturing establishments, others large
public buildings, atill others costly busi-
mesa blocks, and many elegant residences
which in every respecs would do credit to
any community in the country. II r $f3s5.s
This activisy-the generality OF the op-
erations-tho wide rsnge in cost, from
modest cottage, built by the owner with
only Indispensable assistance aud coating
g few hundred dollars, to the stately mod
ern church or school o. imposing factory
or business block costing hundred tinss
as much-these characteristics, united to
the wide spresd bsttermsnts, public and
private, Of mora modest character, show
state Of financial prosperity pleasing in.
deed to contemplate, x
souR ITEMS NOT COUNTED. =
INTELIIaENoER reporters have in the
past few days upant come time in collect
ing detailed ststsment Of the improve.
ments In the way Of new buildings, and
the surprising results will be found below.
It was not the aim in this review to cover
such costly and beneficial improvements
as the new electrical street railway, now
in progress OF construction, and which
represents step toward metropolitan
proportions. the like of which the city has
not taken since the Citizsna' Railway was
built; the alteration and repairs put on
its two bridges by tho Wheeling & Bel.
mont Bridge Company the street paving;
the now water aud gas mains and sewers; !;
the B. & O. switch to accommodate the
Fulton industrial establishments; the nu-
merous nhorter switches to connect exist.
| ing lines Of railroad with existing facto.
ries, nor any of the coatly and desirable
improvements Of thie character which
have added so much in a general way.
The progress made In this department OF
growth by the city In the active season OF
1887 would OF itself make showing that
would do credit to the enterprise and pub.
| lie spirit OF the community, and startle
out OF years growth some Of those pessi-
mistic soeptics who are continually sneer-
ing at oil efforts to "boom the old town."
At present the matter under consideration
| ia the activity in building houseu and it's
influence on the city's welfare. So IS
fs. 8. NEW rorTERtIs. !s.5s. IND
The progress Of the manufactures in
the extension Of their facilities Ia pleasant
to anticipate. Among the most important
work arc the two new pottries now being
built. j. 2, ~. Il "a \. 4
3 The Warwick China company's pottery,
on Water street In the Filth ward, it Is
thought will be completed in ninety days
and thon will be ready for thespring trade.
The main building will measure 22O by
w lCos aAA VAk bo AouA otoAACo AlkAs y l Ac
boiler and engine room will be on the
south end Of the hrst floor, in close prox.
unity with all the machinery for making
the clay and manufacturing the ware.
This floor will also contain the biscuit,
dipping and green room. On the second
floor will be the j!gglng room, the third
the pressing room and tho fourth the
mold making and molding rooms. The
kiln sheds occupy a space Of 40 feet in
length by 72 feet in the widest part, and
are one story in height. Only four kilns
will be built at present, although thore is
room for nine.
a. The warehouse Is four stories high and
measures IS by 90 feet. The building to
be used BY decorating department and
offices will measure G6 by SS feet and will
be three s!ories high, and the. decorating
kiln sheds will be one story, mensuring
68 by :2S feet. . Tho pottery will commence
on somi.procelaln ware and later on will
make what lis becoming 80 popular, with
the possible addition ofwhIte granite. BY
i the Gnran arationa heinv matin I'm tha tdec,